State of undress when you were younger at your pediatrician examinations.

Was the same for me, strip to underwear and then it got lowered to check your balls. More recently (like 50 years more) my regular exams no longer include the rectal exam but the urologist still does them. Odd.

My checkups and sick visits were always done with just me being told by the nurse to strip down to my underwear. After sitting on the exam table, in my underwear, for a few minutes, the nurse would tell me to lay on my tummy so she could take my temperature. She would get the thermometer and Vaseline, and gently pull my underpants down to around my knees. Once the thermometer was lubed, she would insert it into my bottom and then talk to my mom about my symptoms. The thermometer was kept in my bottom until the doctor entered the room and swiftly plucked it out and read my temperature to the nurse.

I remember it like it was yesterday.

Always down to my underwear. Sometimes I could wrap myself in a sheet to keep somewhat warm. Never got a rectal temp.

At 13, I was fully clothed for the first usual part of the exam - you know, those eyes, ears, vital signs, oral exam. It was only after the doctor finished asking my medical history and possible symptoms that the genital part began. I had to strip my school uniform down completely, except for socks (and I didn't think my doctor gave regards to details on levels of modesty. To have genitals examined was to provide full view - lying on the check-up bed with legs spread a little bit apart, him lifting and palpating all parts of my privates). Say goodbye to gowns, pulling down underwear half way, or having a sneak peek. It didn't even seem that he rushed it through, taking his time to discuss my testes, saying they were well developed and should be producing much semen by then and continued to lecture me on the virtues of "not fooling around with girls, or I'd get them pregnant" hahaha.

This didn't happen in the US or the West, so I guess we have procedural differences.

From at least age four until maybe 13 years ago, I always stripped down to my briefs...socks, shoes, everything went. Unfortunately, that ended when doctors started doing "Wellness exams" instead of physicals, and homophobia caused docs to tell me to leave my shirt on for the chest exam (I still take it off, wheter they like it or not).

Naked. I remember laying on the table and getting a thermometer stuck in. I remember getting taken down the hall and getting a big enema. Don't remember why , but I do remember it making me feel awful & making me poop... a lot.

Unfortunately, that ended when doctors started doing "Wellness exams" instead of physicals, and homophobia caused docs to tell me to leave my shirt on for the chest exam

These wellness exams suck big time! True exams are supposed to be a little embarrassing with our bare skin and genitals exposed like never before, urging us men to man-up for highly thorough check-up, just like those military ones. In the future, guys may complain even if the doctor accidentally brushed against their groin.

My pediatrician examined me in just panties until I was 12, then I got a gown and panties until 16. From 16-19 it was just a gown.

I was in my bra and panties up until I want to college.

As a younger boy, my pants were immediately ordered removed upon entering the exam room. One of the first orders of business was taking my rectal temp, so lowering my underwear was the second action. Upon completion I was helped upright with my legs dangling from the table. My mother would then be instructed to “make sure he keeps his underpants down until Dr M sees him.”

I was forced to be bottomless for almost my entire appointment. I’m not sure if it could’ve possibly been more embarrassing and degrading. It seemed cruel and unusual at the time, and I guess it still does.

At least I got a lifelong rectal temp and bottomless fetish out of the deal.

I cannot remember early doctor visits for myself as most were house calls if I was actually ill. I rarely had a check up if I was not ill. I do know that when I would take my son to the pediatrician in the early/mid 70's (when he was under about 5-6 years old) they would have me remove his pants but leave his underpants on. Then the nurse would come in and have him lay on the exam table so that she could pull his undies down and take his rectal temperature. After she was done she would pull them back up and he would remain in his undies for the rest of the exam.

From my memory, I believe I was usually asked to undress to underpants for my exams when I was younger. I never remember being provided with a gown until I started seeing an internist as an adult. With the pediatrician in the underwear would stay on until the end when you knew they would be lowered for the hernia exam.

I was always asked by the nurse to take off all my clothes except my boxers before the doctor came in. When the doctor would move to the genital exam when I was laying back on the table he would usually lift my boxers up and down to fully look and feel everything. I had a pediatrician one time had me stand up for the genital exam and he pulled my boxers down to my knees for a very thorough genital exam.

At boarding school in the UK we always has our medicals after PE lessons so we were already in our gym knickers and vests. From 11 - 14 the exam was just weight, height measurements, reflexes and a visual genital inspection that involved our knickers being lowered. From 14 (or maybe 13) it included a breast exam. Later at 15 or 16 mom took me to her genie which involved the dreaded digital exams.....

My pediatrician would begin the exams with me in panties and bra. By the end, both had come off.

My pediatrician would begin the exams with me in panties and bra. By the end, both had come off.

@GraceT I'm just curious, would you remove one item of clothing and replace it after that area was examined, before removing the other? Or would you remove one item, be examined, then immediately remove the last article of clothing leaving you completely naked before finishing the exam? Or perhaps remove both bra and panties together and remain naked until the end of the exam?

Ever since I was a kid, I've been fascinated and curious about other people's exam experiences. Especially the details of how they are completed.

At my pediatrician an assistant brought my mum and me from the waiting room to an empty exam room. The office had two exam rooms. There i was called to "undress", what was meaning there always down to panties and socks and wait like this that until the doctor was coming.

Every year before we went mom would remind to wear a new pair of underwear. With good reason, because that was the only thing I was going to have on.

The nurse would call me back and take me into the room. “Amanda it looks like you are here for a physical. The doctor is going to want everything off but your undies.”

“Everything?”

“Yep. Socks. Bra. Everything. That’s going to make it easiest for the doctor to check everywhere she needs to. You can use this to cover up”

She would hand me a paper drape at that point. Not a gown. Just like a giant napkin. At 18 I remember sitting under it feeling humiliated. I was being treated like a baby even though I was an adult. It was cold. It didn’t provide much cover at all.

I can’t imagine a doctor doing thing that way now. The complete lack of modesty is shocking to me. The patients feelings were last. Who cares if they were embarrassed or uncomfortable? You were there to be seen by the doctor. And your thoughts and feelings don’t really matter.

I would give anything to go back and have a physical in that state of undress under those circumstances again. It’s funny how the mind works.

My sister and I were always in our panties until my sister started budding. She is two years older than me. She was moved to a separate room at this point. She said she was offered a gown. Then when I started budding I was offered a gown. But always had panties on even under the gown but no bra. My doctor would do everything she needed to do including a breast exam. Then she would have me on my back and check my tummy and then pull my panties down. I think she wanted us to be relaxed and not embarrassed even though she had seen us since birth. It was all pretty fast. At least it was until we started getting pelvics.

I was in only my panties for the entire exam at the pediatrician.

I began seeing our family doctor when was 12 and was in bra and panties without a gown. I never had a gown until I began seeing the gynecologist.

When very young I remember to be completely naked before starting the examination. Last years at my pediatrician he made me undress to my briefs and remove them only during the last part of the examination.

I was usually undressed to the degree needed for the examination; thus for an examination for stomach ache, I had to bare my stomach, but not my genitals.

More intimate examinations included:

- examinations of my penis due to phimosis, then post-circumcision scar check

- digital rectal exam to confirm appendicitis

- undescended testicle.

I recall having to lower my briefs for a physical at school.

Instructed to undress to my underwear.

Doctor would always pulled back the underwear for genital exam lying down or pulled them down himself when I was standing.

Only once did I have to take my underwear off completely for the second half of the exam.

If it was a sick visit, the maximal state of undress was removing the top clothing, or just lifting it up for the auscultation. At the annual check ups it was in panties only. Even the socks were off (I remember my soles making "sticking" sounds while walking on the vinyl flooring in the pediatrician's office).

Tara99

This sound absolutely great. I very like if woman is barefoot during her examination and if doctor examine her feet. And sticking sounds during walking at doctor office is super bonus😃

Always undressed to my underwear with no gown. When I was an older teenager, my pediatrician's started offering a gown but didn't require me to wear it. Usually they just instructed me to undress to my socks and underwear. Every now and then they would explicitly ask me to take my socks off too, but this seemed to be random.

The state of undress, at my pediatrician has been different, depending on the pediatrician my first pediatrician. I was trip down to my panties and give them a gown, but now at my current pediatrician I stay dress, till they need the second article of clothing removed.